Garry Winogrand’s first retrospective in 25 years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is also the first exhibition to examine…
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by Madison Kahn Born and raised in Texas, Chris Brown cultivated his penchant for the publishing world at an early age. At a meager eight-years-old, Brown created an illustrated zine about his neighborhood, and has been working hard ever since to both tell the stories of people he encounters and…
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A hunting inspired coat re-issued from Eddie Bauer’s archives
New from Eddie Bauer’s Fall line of heritage garments is the Camoweave Forester. The handsome coat pays tribute to its hunting-inspired predecessor first introduced by Eddie Bauer in 1965, using the same superior construction techniques and materials. The unique, shadow plaid pattern is woven into the fabric—rather than printing directly on top—using yarn in 14 different colors, blended together to create the distinct camouflage.
The 11-oz. wool and quilted lining deliver plenty of warmth for those days when your shell won’t do. When it comes to wet weather, it should be noted that the jacket relies only on wool’s natural, but somewhat minimal, water repellence—to preserve the fabric’s purity, the finish was left uncoated and untreated.
For utility, the jacket features four cargo pockets on the front, and a larger, dual-entry field/game pocket on the lower back. This kangaroo pouch style pocket is often found on traditional hunting jackets for extra storage that won’t get in the way.
The Camoweave Forester dropped today at Eddie Bauer online, and follows in select stores in early November. At $399, think of it as an investment.
Handpicked Americana style for the home now available online
ByKenyan‘s Kenyan Lewis has more than an exceptional eye for antiques. Together with his partner Grace Kelsey, the two live and breathe the Americana lifestyle—from their beautifully rustic home and interior design projects to prop styling and selection of collector’s items discerningly sourced from around the U.S. For those looking for a dose of their style, you no longer have to be a ByKenyan client to achieve it. An assortment of these one-off rare finds now sell online from Gargyle, along with a forthcoming video series featuring the handsome twosome as they “shop for the goods.”
Products currently up for purchase span a 1920s oil field workers’ tape-measure divided into 10ths, glass apothecary vessels, a Russian “Amepnka” (America) letterpress stamp and 1940s Marx dump trucks—which you maybe have seen on display at our ByKenyan-designed holiday pop-up shop for the Gap last year.
The Gargyle selection will rotate monthly, but for those who don’t want to wait to see what’s up next, ByKenyan also offers a personalized furniture shopping and home merchandising services. To see where Kenyan and Grace find some of their classic decor, tune into the upcoming episode of HGTV’s “My Favorite Place” which will air 30 July 2011 at 6pm.
An inside look at Portland, OR’s heritage-inspired accessories workshop and new retail outpost
Hailing from the heart of the Great Northwest, Portland, OR’s Tanner Goods is perfectly positioned to produce accessories rugged enough for a true outdoorsman but with looks good enough for city streets. To best showcase their expanding line of handmade leather belts, wallets, lanyards and canvas bags the label recently opened the doors to their first stand-alone retail store in downtown Portland.
I recently swung through, feeling right at home after one step inside the quaint space. From bags and belts to collaborations with fellow Oregonians Pendleton and Danner boots, all housed in the industrial-design interior, we were encouraged to touch and feel the quality in each piece. Local artisans and students can even purchase cut-rate leftovers by the pound from heavy bins of leather scraps.
After seeing the finished products, I ran across town to the workshop where they handcraft each and every piece that bares the hand stamped Tanner Goods insignia. There a small team of craftsman precisely cuts, tans, stitches and stamps the most recent batch of goods.
Coming as no surprise, Tanner uses only the finest domestically-sourced materials for their products—English Bridle American leather and heavyweight 10-ounce waxed canvas (from the sole remaining textile mill in America that still produces the specific fabric) to be exact. This emphasis on material quality ensures that Tanner products will last many years to come and only grow better looking with age.
Tanner’s position as a driving factor in the domestic heritage revival wasn’t earned easily, but the superb attention to detail in each and every stitch is sure keep them there. Check the gallery for more images of the workshop and go to Tanner online to view products and see a complete list of Tanner stockists.
MoMA screens the true-story adventure of tracking down boxcar graffiti’s most notorious artist
One man’s sixteen-year quest to track down the elusive artists of a moniker that’s been appearing in railyards across America for 80-odd years is beautifully captured in the 56-minute documentary Who is Bozo Texino? The film debuted in 2005 and since its creator—filmmaker, trainrider and Guggenheim Fellow Bill Daniel—has taken the film on the road to more than 400 venues large and small.
Shot in black-and-white 16mm film with a Bolex camera, Daniel uses the scrawled moniker of Bozo Texino, an expressionless man wearing a large stetson, to explore the themes restlessness and freedom, hardship and entrapment and the many contradictions that exist for those that live on the rails.
This week Daniel brings the film to the MOMA for a rare special screening in Manhattan. He’ll be joined by Gary Fogelson who designed and edited the companion book, Mostly True, which elaborates on the mythic Bozo Texino and how its legacy reflects a largely invisible subculture that ride the nation’s rails and has existed in parallel to mainstream society since the Civil War.
“I don’t want to give too much away about Bozo, the film, or the mystery behind it all because people should come and find that out for themselves,” Folgelson recently told Cool Hunting. “I will say that the folks featured in this film (and book) are well known unknowns, and their work is an important piece in the history of American folk art.”
View a clip here featuring one of the many interviews of tramps and hobos Daniel encounters along the way. The DVD is also available for purchase direct from Daniel
on his website or from Amazon.
Large-format photography of contemporary Americana in Alec Soth’s retrospective
Likening his process to “web surfing in the real world,” photographer Alec Soth spent the past 15 years traversing the U.S. with an 8×10 field camera, quietly composing narratives of subjects he finds on his travels. While projects have taken the Twin Cities native down the Mississippi, to Bogota and back across the vast Midwest, Soth’s career retrospective “From Here To There: Alec Soth’s America” falls closer to home at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center.
The photographer’s vision of the U.S. is a lonely portrait of the American road. Using a free-associative method, Soth links the runaways and vagabonds he often depicts by allowing one person’s story to lead to the next, in a style similar to Robert Frank and William Eggleston.
Stylistically, Soth’s use of the large-format camera captures exquisite details, documenting each of his subjects down to tattoos and paint-splattered clothes. The cumbersome camera takes time to set up, but arguably its this time he spends with each person that makes for the disarming intimacy of each image. While the feeling of displacement runs throughout the survey of his work, it’s clear he has given each of his subjects a home among each other.
“From Here To There: Alec Soth’s America” includes new works as well as previous projects and is up through through 16 January 2011.
Also on Cool Hunting: Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth
Almost a decade after emigrating to the United States in the ’40s, Swiss photographer Robert Frank decided to document the reality of his adopted country’s then-current condition—a nation as he saw it obsessed with money and struggling with the divisions among race and class. Of the 12 cities he visited in 1955, the particularly moving images of Detroit make up the current exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Frank spent several days exploring the Motor City, visiting the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in the suburb of Dearborn, as well as the Gratiot Drive-In, and Belle Isle park. Capturing images of classic mid-century American life with his Leica camera, Frank compiled the pictures along with others from his journey in a groundbreaking photography book titled “The Americans” in 1958.
The show includes the eight photos from his iconic book, as well as a large collection of rare photos, many never before seen. With no catalog for the exhibit and no photography allowed inside the galleries, a trip to the slowly deteriorating city is the best way to understand Frank’s series of “gritty, dark and full of motion and emotion” photos.
“Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955” runs through 3 July 2010 at Detroit Institute of Arts. See more images after the jump.
via one of CH’s fave photographers
Lisa Kereszi for Daylight Magazine
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